Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-01-30
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LITTLE TU'PENNY.
BY 5. R GOULD.
CHAPTER !.


plowed turn it up thick and tough and IL
favored. the house walls are built OF 1t
burned into pale bricks, the roofs are tileC
with it, the very swallows nests under tn
caves are nodded out of it; walk along thu
roads and your boots are clogged with II
walk as gingerly rs You will, yOu are De
spattered with it.
Within twenty or thirty miles OF Lon
don occurs q tract OF fiat clay land, OF heid'
of cabhages and beans and corn, surrounded
bv stuuted thorn hedges, with here and
there a brick and tile yard, some worked,
others deserted; the old brick, fields con
verted into ragged sloppy depressiOns, into
which is east all the refuse from the neigh
borhOod. There stands pools OF stagnan'
water. friuged with coarse grass, and the
banks sparsely producing doc, daisies, and
yellow tansies-
The road here runs straight as though
made by the old Romans, or ~ a French
road engineered under the first Napoleon
Beside this road is a gate, opening int
n waste piece of ground slightly raised
above the surrounding surface, and on tins
match of waste land stands a windmill.
The whole OF the mill, built of wood Is
painted white, white rs the flour that Is
ground in it.
Half q mile off runs the wall Of n park.
That wall marks the limit OF London clay
and the beginning of gravel marks, where
beans end and trees commence, where the
pillow ceases to run its furrOw, and the cow
and the sheep and even the deer run in-
stead.
In the mill worked Joe Western, eOnsid-
cred a surly, because a silent, man. but
certainly ~ungenial and unsOciable-a good
deal of London clay in his composition APP
Parently.
In the park lived Dick Redfern, the
keeper, his wife, and only child Trip. IL Is
waste of words to say that TriptOlema, he
ing an only child, was spoiled. But then
was there not an excuse for it? An eN-
cuSe to be found in the appearance and
ways OF the child. Whenan ugly, lll-con-
ditioned little girl is pampered and petted,
We see at once that the parents are blame
worthy; but when the girl is pretty and
winSome, skillful in working her way into
the hardest heart, aS--the wood worm bOres
into the most Obdurate oak, then we allow
that the parents are eNeuSabIe.
How did the girl come by the name Trip
tolema? WOrse-ininitely wOrSe-her en-
tire Christian name was TriptOlema Vel
lOwly. or to be more exact, GellOwleal.
She got her name in the following man
neT.
Mrs. RedGern, the keepers wife had been,
lady's maid at the hall to Misses Totem
ham. When she had on one occasion beer
much impressed with hearing the same o
Triptolemus Y~ellowley frequently men
toned by the young ladies, who had beer
reading Sir Walter SCOTS Pirate
Their lady's maid heard the name, i'll
remembered il. though treasualng IN he
mind the general sound of the name, whicl
she thought very fine; and when she haC
married the keeper and became the mOthe
of a little girl, Richard, y said she to he
husband, she shall be called TriptOlemj
YellOwleaf, and no objection on your par
will he of the smallest weight with me.
Its a queer name
Queer it may bc, Richard, " said hi
wife: but it * u name that sir Waite
Scott. Bart, did not blush To Use; an
what a Bart, l. not ashamed OF, | don'tSe
that a gamekeepcr should turn up his nos
at"
II only send Il was queer.
"WelI, surprising 1t he queer, said Mrs
Redeem: It's d-Stingy.'
p-Stingy ldJstingUe Mrs. Redeem meant
the name OF Triptolcma might be, In
when the girl went 10 school she found
emintly distressing. The nam lent ltScl
10 what Professor Max Muller would cal
phonetic ~dcgradations. 1t invited the way
to try their wjticj>mS upon Il, II provoke,
attention, It excited envy IN some, ridIcul
i'm others. IL was not y u name that coulI
be let alone.
When the master Of the National Schoc
desired To be particularly whitening in hi
scorn he named her in full. AT the rol
call. Trip was happy when only the in
itials of her Christian name were give
her.
Finally, by that peryereity which char
acterizeS the popular voice who PROFOUND
ell that propoSterOuS hoax, "NoX Populi
vox Dei?')-that voice which lnevitabl.
~pronOunces wrong, settled upon the nick
name which bore the smallest resemblance
To Triptolem Neilowleaf Redtern. Firs
sporadically appeared the designation
Little T'upenny' and then, by degrees
II displaced every other nickname, an
throughout the district. even in the hall
she wa known ~ Little T'upenny.'
Mrs. Redfern WAS not the wisest Of wo
men. She had picked up a smattcring q
grand words and . love OF grand thing
when she was lldy's maid at the hall. Sh
was superior to Dick, the keeper, in bein
able to flourish these grand words, and tai
Of grand things. She found it against tn
grain to cesCend To the care of a poor man
cottage, and she kept Dick awake to tn
fact that in marrying him, she had com
down. She kept, indeed heI little parlC
in splendor, with hugle mats, and antim;
clSSars. and glass flower va e, and SMART
bound books on the table, and glazed an
Gilt framed chrome autographs on the wall
but her kitchen was most untidy, and Oh
meals she prepared for her husband wei
uncomfortable, her paStieS heavy, her mea
and potatoes over or underdone.
"YOu see, Richard, my good fellow,
she argued, Il never was, I thank Prov
dence, 80 low down rs q kitchen maid, an
| never was n cook. If you'd wear Ion
hair, and let me do it up, or have a faring'
I'd show what my powers are, and in wha
my genius lies. Wait! When LENA
grown up; won't l only make a splash wit
her head?'
Trip. rs her father called the little girl
was rs pretty, lively a child rs ever wa
seen. She had very fair curly tlaxen hair
and dark eyes and laSheS. Her eompleXio
was blooming. Her bright face Sparkler
with merriment. She had a happy spirit
was amiable and engaging, and would hay
crown into q charming young woman hat
she not been spoiled by her father ant
mother, by the notice taken of her by tn
people of the great house, RingwOod Hall